Baltimore Sun: For five days last month, Bryan Harris had found everything he wanted in a college basketball program.

Harris, a 6-foot-2, 185-pound combo guard, graduated from Southern in 2011 with no Division I scholarship offers. But a standout post-grad season with Massanutten Military Academy in Virginia earned him several DI offers, including one from Duquesne, which he accepted May 18.

Harris’ happiness, however, proved to be fleeting. On May 23, Duquesne fired coach Ron Everhart, leaving Harris’ status as a Dukes commitment utterly uncertain.

“I was devastated,” Harris said Sunday. “He was at my house two days before. I had no idea that could happen.”

If there was a silver lining to Harris’ suddenly muddied recruiting picture, it was that it forced him to revisit a few college programs he had previously dismissed in favor of the Dukes. Florida International, Hofstra, Robert Morris and Wofford were considered, and on Sunday, Harris decided on the Terriers.

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